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Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. 8vo; 193 pages; Unmarked and secure in original binding in very nice dustjacket. Laid-in typed letter on Harpercollins letterhead to Rowland and Kay Evans signed by the editor (Buz Wyeth), presenting the book for their consideration in v…iew of their long friendship with RFK and his family. On the 25th anniversary of Robert Kennedy's death, syndicated columnist Rogers--an old friend of the Kennedys--offers a fond, adulatory remembrance of RFK as family man. Rogers makes clear that his memoir is a ``love story''-- written with the cooperation of the Kennedy family--in which he declines to address the many sensationalized allegations that journalists have made against the family (although he gently asserts that RFK's alleged affair with Marilyn Monroe did not occur). Instead, the author tries ``to capture the essence of the character, curiosity, wit, honesty, and love of family that propelled a remarkable man.'' Rogers vividly depicts a deeply religious man, profoundly devoted to his country, wife, and many children. Through many anecdotes--some genuinely amusing (a particularly ludicrous image is of dignified historian Arthur Schlesinger, in dark suit and bow tie, being ``catapulted'' into a pool at a Kennedy party)--Rogers draws a crazy-quilt picture of the chaotic family home at Hickory Hill, Virginia, headed by doting parents, filled with rambunctious small children and exotic animals, frequented by the distinguished, and animated by an endless passion for excellence. There's little discussion here of RFK as public man, except for Rogers's certainty that, had he lived, Kennedy would have been elected President in 1968 and would have profoundly altered the course of recent American history. Rogers also presents the human side of Kennedy's rivalry with Teamster president Jimmy Hoffa, showing the two to be strangely similar in many ways, but he doesn't probe into the ways that Kennedy, as as attorney general, pursued organized crime. Though generally lighthearted, the narrative takes melancholy turns with its account of RFK's severe depression after hearing of his brother's death, and with the author's eyewitness description of Kennedy's assassination after winning the 1968 California primary. TLS from Marion S.(Buz) Wyeth, Jr., editor at HarperCollins, edited Old Yeller, With Malice Toward None, Paper Lion, Out of My League, and The Boys of Summer, among many other titles. He began his career as a salesman at Doubleday bookstore, next became a representative for Macmillan and then Harper Bros., where he joined the editorial staff at Harpers, and was soon working with writers such as George Plimpton, Richard McKenna, and Ursula Le Guin. He was the editor of a book by Fred Gipson, which came to him with the title Big Yellow Dog. He re-named it Old Yeller. He also loved to tell the story of how he turned down a book about a talking seagull, which, of course, became the best-seller Jonathan Livingston Seagull.
